By 2008 it will be consuming something like 0.3% of the GDP of the entire planet, and the idea that one person, however able they are, can actually deal with all the minutiae that go on in the NHS, absolutely everything from a bed pan dropping off a bed to a cancelled operation, is frankly absurd.

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Once a light station that marked the shoals off the coast of Southport, North Carolina, for ships, the two-story Frying Pan Shoals Light Station now houses a bed-and-breakfast perched on a platform 32 miles off the coast of Cape Fear.

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